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for internal dispatches were 918,984 thlrs. ; 

 the share derived from dispatches partially 

 forwarded by other companies, 319,030 thlrs. ; 

 for international dispatches 597,474 thlrs. ; and 

 for through-dispatches 183,086 thlrs. 



The new arrangement that came into opera- 

 tion at the German telegraph offices in 1869 

 might be extended with advantage to other 

 countries. Parts of telegrams, even single 

 words, may now bo registered, the Govern- 

 ment undertaking to guarantee their correct 

 transmission. Guaranteed words are under- 

 lined, and are simply charged a double rate. 

 Hitherto the charge has been the full double 

 price of the whole telegram. The money-or- 

 der system between the large cities of North 

 Germany and the United States was put in. 

 operation on February 1, 1869. 



On May 30, 1869, a Protestant Congress was 

 held at Worms, which included representatives 

 from all the states of Germany. It resolved, by 

 a unanimous vote, against the Pope's exhorta- 

 tion to return to the Roman Catholic Church, 

 condemned the Encyclical Letter and Syllabus, 

 and gave a declaration concluding in the follow- 

 ing words : 4l Finally, we declare all efforts with- 

 in the Protestant Church tending to establish 

 hierarchical power of the clergy and an ex- 

 clusive dominion of dogmas as a denial of the 

 Protestant spirit, and stepping-stones only to 

 Rome. Convinced that supineness and indif- 

 ference on the part of many Protestants have 

 furnished a main support to the reactionary 

 Church party, and constitute also the princi- 

 pal impediment in the most powerful German 

 state against national and church revivifica- 

 tion, we admonish all our brethren in faith to be 

 vigilant, and combine together in a strong bul- 

 wark against all tendencies menacing spiritual 

 and conscientious freedom." 



A "Social-democratic" Congress was held 

 at Eisenach in August, 1869, consisting of 262 

 delegates from 193 places. It declared that 

 political freedom is the indispensable prelim- 

 inary condition for the social delivery of the 

 working-classes ; that the necessity of common, 

 and harmonious efforts suggests an organiza- 

 tion of the socialistic-democratic party to work 

 for, an equal, universal, and secret suffrage ; the 

 introduction of direct legislation by the peo- 

 ple, the abolition of all privileges of classes, 

 property, birth, and faith ; the establishment 

 of a national militia instead of standing armies, 

 separation of church and state, full liberty of 

 the press and of assemblage ; free public in- 

 struction^ abolition of all indirect taxes and 

 introduction of a direct and progressive in- 

 come tax. 



A Teachers' Congress, in Berlin, in May, 

 1869, was very numerously attended, not less 

 than 4,000 pedagogues from all parts of Germa- 

 ny having joined in it. Their discussions and 

 resolutions were mainly directed toward the 

 separation of the school from the church. 

 Among the numberless institutions of learning 

 there are now in Germany sixty-two industrial, 



GOD, CHURCH OF. 



eleven polytechnic, and nineteen special com- 

 mercial schools. 



The following cities of the confederacy have 

 more than 50,000 inhabitants : Berlin, 703,000 ; 

 Hamburg, 218,000; Breslau, 167,000; Dres- 

 den, 156,000 ; Cologne, 120,000 ; Konigsburg, 

 106,000; Magdeburg, 101,000; Leipsic, 92,000; 

 Dantzic, 88,000 ; Frankfort - on - the - Main, 

 78,000; Hanover and Stettin, 74,000; Aix-la- 

 Chapelle, 68,000 ; Bremen and Altona, 67,000 

 each; Barmen and Elberfeld, 65,000 each; 

 Diisseldorf, 63,000; Chemnitz, 59,000; Cre- 

 feld, 54,000. 



GOD, CHUECH OF. The Rev. E. H. Thomas, 

 editor of the Church Advocate, Lancaster, Pa., 

 the principal organ of this Church, gives the 

 following summary of its condition in the year 

 1869:* 



" The Church of God in North America has 

 a membership of from 26,000 to 30,000 ; about 

 400 organized churches, 350 licensed ministers, 

 ten Annual Elderships in full connection, and 

 one in Texas, separated during the war, but 

 waiting for reconstruction and reunion; one 

 General Eldership composed of delegates from 

 all the Annual Elderships, which meets every 

 three years. It meets in May and June of next 

 year in this city (Lancaster, Pennsylvania). 

 "We have one Church organ, the Church Advo- 

 cate, and one Sunday-school paper, the Sun- 

 day-school Gem, both published in this city. 

 "We have as yet but one institution of learning, 

 Centralia College, Kansas. In faith Armenian, 

 in practice Baptist, but open communion ; 

 church government Presbyterian, with an itin- 

 erancy, without bishops or presiding elders. 

 Our Elderships are located, three in Pennsyl- 

 vania and Maryland (one German), two in 

 Ohio, one in Michigan, one and part of another 

 in Indiana, and one and a portion of another 

 in Illinois, one in Iowa, and one in Texas." 



The ninth triennial meeting of the General 

 Eldership of the Church of God in North 

 America was held in Lancaster City, Pa., 

 on the 27th of May, 1869. Ministerial and 

 lay delegates were in attendance from the fol- 

 lowing Elderships: East Pennsylvania, West 

 Pennsylvania, East Ohio, West Ohio, Indiana, 

 Southern Illinois and Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, 

 Michigan, and the German. The charter of 

 incorporation granted by the Pennsylvania Le- 

 gislature was adopted. A favorable report 

 was made of the mission at Chicago, where 

 the work of establishing the Church has been 

 progressing under difficulties, but with increas- 

 ing success for five years. A permanent church 

 organization has been obtained, and ^ church/ 

 property of considerable value. Six or eight 

 missions are also in successful operation in the 

 East Pennsylvania Eldership, of which the 

 Philadelphia mission is the most prosperous. 

 Several missions have been opened on the Mis- 

 souri River, and one is contemplated among 

 the freedmen in the South. Increasing inter- 



* In a report prepared for Schem's American Ecclesias- 

 tical Almanac for 1869. 



